Here’s To John Unger and Schoep

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Rose – REALLY??? Maybe you could come to the Fair?? Oh, Mama is twirling with that idea!
Details – the Fair is August 21-26, 10 am to 10 pm. Mama will have a booth in the exhibition building. But the Fair has rules about member of the NAtion Within. We are not allowed. Period. Oh sure, you can have sheep and cows and rabbits and ducks and chicken and horses, but loyal, gentle, happy dogs are forbidden. grrrrrrrr.

Hope the Gang of Sisters has a good time at IKEA – that store will never be the same.

And now off to the laying under the work table – someone has to supervise, and if we can do that job, it takes some of the pressure off Mama. Aren’t we GOOD Doggies!?

T&G, yes, the Prof and I are making plans to visit. I can’t wait to meet your mum and dad, but grrrrrrrrr, I’m not happy that you will not be there.

And, Sammie, yes, that was a good one!!!

Rio! We have traveled as far as Boston and Philadelphia by car. By plane we have traveled to Chicago and Puerto Rico. The Prof has been to Utah and Florida by himself for school conferences.
Dutchess County is about an hour’s drive from where we live.

There may be the possibility that I will be traveling somewhere very cold next February……

The first short story I downloaded was the one by Lee Child.
The second short story I downloaded was about the 1924 British Expedition to Mt. Everest. It is fiction, but based on true events during that expedition. It turns into a not too scary horror story.
We liked both stories very much and they were good practice for “A Cat Was Involved”.

Melanie, Mom says to tell Zoe that when reading on the Kindle One Touch you cannot swipe a dog hair off the screen. It has to be blown off.

Stover!…We have not had too much time to play with the Kindle…sniff!…She was trying to look through a crockpot cookbook she ordered and it was frustrating going one page at a time through each recipe…grunt!…We need to improve our “Search” skills or something…snuffle!

Lunchbreak is coming along with a thunderstorm, so we can’t stay online. But we have to say WOOOOO HOOOOOO – Mama is gonna get to meet Rose!!! Twirling, twirling, twirling……DUCK….thunderclaps! Yikes….later, gators

Wolfie, Blasphemy!!! SiberH, both short stories are excellent. The one just released where Reacher is in the Army is interesting because there isn’t alot of typical Reacher being super tough, but more the thinking and figuring out the bad guy. Like Wolfie, we really like the story of Reacher and his brother as youngsters. Siber, be sure and get both stories. Both can be read in one sitting.

On the Kindle Fire, when you first turn it on, at the bottom there are symbols. The one that looks like a page with lines will take you to a choice of going to the cover, table of contents, beginning, location…, sync to furthest page. If you have something like that Rio, you may be able to find things in the cookbook more easily.

Also, regarding searching: At the home page there is a search box. Tap it and the keyboard appears. You can find specific locations of words in a text, or, if you are on the web, you can search just as you do on the computer. You can also go to the app store.

You can make notes by holding your finger on a word. My Kindles first and second generations had built-in dictionaries but I haven’t found that on the Kindle Fire yet.

I just went to the Amazon site and looked on the Kindle Fire support page for looking up words in the dictionary. It’s easy: tap the word and a short definition appears. You can also tap on full definition in the box and get the longer version. Excellent!

Wose! Please check your SDD. I’ve got my sparkly, pink collar ready and have plans drafted to kick my two legged and the Bearded One out of my bed if, nay, when you come north to Alaska. I share my big bed with them all year round. Surely, they can share Tenzing’s pillow for a few nights.

Sadie, my misdiagnosed “lab” who hates water, fell into the lake trying to take a drink this morning. We had been walking 90 minutes and she and Lady had been chasing ravens and geese. She struggled a bit but I walked the shore calling her name and she found her way out. I’m kind of afraid of water myself so I understand. Lady, the sled dog, loves swimming and jumps in at every opportunity. Last winter she fell through the ice and I went towards her on instinct until the ice started cracking under my feet. Fortunately, I just kept encouraging her and she was able to get out.

Weather is lovely today–it was awful yesterday so I didn’t make it to the fair. I am leaving today in 5 minutes. BBL

Rose!..If you ever came to visit here we would need at least a month to get ready…grunt! …What with all the cleaning and grocery shopping and us getting baths…sniff!…Maybe you better give us 2 months warning…grunt!

Wose: If you ever visit Rio without advance notice, it is best not to be disguised as a car or bunny. It doesn’t matter how many slim Jim’s you have in your sparkly pink backpack, he will bark at you. My four- legged mama and I learned the hard way.

Yeep!..CHobbit you sure have a lot of close-calls living out there in the Alaskan Wilds…wheeze!…You better pack up and come live with one of the Plunderers down here where its safe…sniff!…Just watch out for all the fires in Montana and Idaho on your way down…grunt!

Dog lovers often adopt dogs to do something for them. Companionship, alert to strangers. Whatever.

But soon the tables are turned and you spend your life doing whatever you can FOR you dog. And more so the older they get. You go from enjoying their puppyhood and taking their presence for granted to indulging them. The older they get, the more you realize their time on this earth is way too short. You want to make sure they have the best life possible in the time they have left. So you’ll play squeaky or throw that ball as long as they ask you, because it is the least you can do for them. Such a small request to make them happy.

John Unger understand this. It is awesome he has been loved by his dog Schoep for 19 years. I would do anything for my dog too.

Rio, I may have my C.W. singers mixed up, but isn’t Randy Travis the one that was married to an older woman for years and years and lived in Hawaii? I think they got divorced a couple of years ago. Maybe he needed someone to keep him on the straight and narrow.

Staff: Isn’t today’s story the same link you posted the other day? Well, it’s a good one and we don’t mind reading it twice.

Mlaiuppa: You said it. The Nation Within deserves the very Best. Interesting name…what is the origin?

C.Hobbit-Harris: Dad saw a video demonstration last winter showing how our kind use our dew claws (the fifth claw) to climb out after falling through the ice. It was advised not to remove them like some owners do – trim only – they do have a purpose.

Melanie, Forgot to mention, we are baking some chicken breast tonight, using this bar-b-que sauce we just received. It is gluten free, and was rated #1 in the country. We got a jar from Barb’s bro in Raleigh, N.C. where it is made. It is called Bone Suckin’ Sauce. Will let you know if it is really that good.

Hi Mlaiuppa! Our dogs have us well trained here. We’d do anything for them. And quite frequently do so.

Cracking ice. Not good. Seems every year some one around here falls through. Our neighbor’s dog fell through once and couldn’t get out. “G” went on his belly across the ice and pulled his dog free. Whew.

Barb & Maggie: The front dewclaws are our “Dog’s Thumbs” – no opposable thumbs darn it, but nifty for holding our bones. In many countries it is illegal to remove them. Not all breeds have the rear dewclaws. For some dogs where the dewclaw touches the ground it can be an aid in running. In some, such as the Great Pyrenees, removal is detrimental to the breed.

Home!…From our walk and we missed the first half hour of the football game…grunt!…Someone here is worried she missed seeing Payton play for the first time as a Bronco…grump!…Its advertising – we hate that about watching football games. Too much advertising time compared to baseball games…sniff!

HOT!…Because we went earlier it was hotter out than usual…gasp!wheeze!sneeze! …Peyton better be worth it, if we even get to see him play…grump!…Damned walk.

Missing!…Where is everybody tonight…grunt!…One would think it was a Friday night or sumthing…sniff!…Well, we missed out on Mannings short little excursion onto the field tonight…gruffle!…So back to the Olympics for now…heh!

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